Corporate access Archive

Demand for direct engagement between firms and investors is on the rise. Amid structural changes on the sell side, accelerated by Mifid II, IROs are facing increased workloads. This is causing a shift in focus for recruiters working on some IR-related searches. ‘There has been an emphasis on corporate access [since the roll-out of Mifid II],’ says Debbie Nathan, director of IR and communications at Carter Murray, a global recruitment agency. ‘The broader chang...

Covid-19 is driving a ‘step change’ in attitudes toward virtual meetings and will have a lasting impact on the corporate access industry, according to panelists on a recent webinar hosted by IR Magazine and OpenExchange. Companies and investors have rapidly shifted to virtual meetings to maintain contact during the s...

US corporate access co-ordinators on the buy side are not expecting in-person meetings to resume until mid-April at the earliest, as the industry strives to understand the effects of Covid-19. The demand for corporate access remains the same, with banks moving their conferences to a virtual format, and issuers and investors initiating direct contact. The earliest that in-person meetings could resume is mid-April, according to one corporate access professional at a l...

For IBM, shareholder engagement is nothing new. Evan Barth, senior counsel at the company, says that when he joined IBM in 2008, there was already a robust proxy season engagement plan in place – long before the term ‘shareholder engagement’ was mainstream. In March, once the proxy statement has been filed, IBM’s in-season engagement efforts kick in. In 2019 the firm engaged with more than 100 institutional investors, representing more than 70 percent of the...